During the two and a half years pilgrimage, the monks traveled from Los Angeles to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage California, bowing once every three steps. “Three steps, one bow—three steps along the side of the highway, then a bow to the ground, so that knees, elbows, hands, and forehead touch the earth, then rise, join the palms together, and take three more steps, then begin another bow…”